Key Performance Area

This role will lead end-to-end financial management for both Wanchai Ferry and Haagen-Dazs brands Food Service channels. It is critical to link financial strategy with business execution—the primary goal will be to drive sustainable, profitable growth while ensuring financial discipline, margin integrity, and cross-functional alignment around shared financial goals.

The Food Service finance BP will partner closely with key business leaders to shape Food Service decisions, govern portfolio development profitability, and build organizational capability.

You will also have the capability to collaborate across functions to deliver business results, elevate governance capabilities and drive process efficiencies within a matrix organization structure.

Key Stakeholders

Director of China Food Service and the direct reported management

Key Job Responsibility

1.      Drive Sustainable & Profitable Food Service Growth

·      Own Food Service P&L accountability for 2 brands (Haagen-Dazs: Sizable; Wanchai Ferry: Start up)

·      Provide financial stewardship to the Commercial Unit/Channel, providing insightful management reporting and financial analysis to support business performance tracking and leadership strategic planning

·      Lead the budget and forecasting process including planning and forecasting of sales, and profit margins, as well as Trade and Consumer investment plans

·      Partner the commercial team to evaluate pricing policy, customers/distributor value chains, new product launches, and other Trade/Consumer investments to ensure appropriate governance and identify opportunities for optimization

Build and design sustainable financial model to new channels or business model, lead new capital investment appraisal to growth project

2.    Govern business process and risks

·      Work with cross-functional teams to identify Risks and Opportunities in the business, while driving potential mitigation plans

·      Act as a bridge to different Finance teams (GAO, Supply Chain Finance, Tax and etc.) to ensure regular financial flows and processes are in place to support business and management needs

·      Drive appropriate governance and controls across business processes, investments and decision-making

Qualifications and skills:

•        8+ years FMCG finance experience in area of Commercial finance, Finance BP or FP&A

•        Experience in Food industry will be a strong bonus

•        Business and Customer Focus

•        Strong leadership, self-motivated with willingness to drive change

•        Proficiency in financial modeling and analytics tools (e.g., Excel advanced functions, Power BI), and ERP systems (e.g., SAP)

•        Strong communication skills with influencing power and conflict management capability

•        Excellent written and spoken English and Mandarin is essential

Educational Requirements:

•        Bachelor’s degree or above. Accounting, finance or IT related major is preferred

•        MBA, ACCA or CPA will be a strong plus